It is the same ole song, as a line from an old Herman’s Hermits hit back in the 60’s “2nd verse same as the 1st” actually it’s the umpteenth time Oil Executives have been called to testify before the US Congress. Gas and oil prices go up, Congress ‘out of the blue’ appears to be [...]
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George Bush, the 43rd President of the United States was inaugurated January 20, 2001 and his term will expire January 20, 2009. Share on Facebook
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Let’s look at another interesting chart. The National Debt on January 1st 1791 just $75 million dollars. Today, it rises by that amount every hour or so. The following graph shows how the National Debt has grown year by year since 1940 to 2005 in actual dollar amounts, uncorrected for inflation: What is interesting to [...]
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On January 1, 2006, the Republican Congress passed two tax breaks, known as the Bush Tax Cuts. The tax codes eliminated were the Pease provision and the personal exemption phase-out provision (PEP). Both were originally passed in 1990 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to reduce the deficit. Share on Facebook
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The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) created the form letter (below) and encourage any interested American to write Congress and tell them to sign CCAGW’s Earmark Reform Pledge. You may find CCAGW’s website at: http://www.ccagw.org/ Share on Facebook
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Define U.S. Government Pork Barrel, displays concise chart outlining spending over the past 18 years.
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Most people believe ‘honesty is the best policy’; teach our children to ‘tell the truth’; ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’; and ‘do not judge lest you be judged’. Conversely most Americans believe that lying, being deceitful, blaming others, passing the buck are not qualities endearing to core American beliefs. [...]
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Most People know government grew under the Clinton Administration, but is has grown even faster under the Bush Administration. Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the ‘state’. Economist Gary Shilling, a Springfield, New Jersery consultant and forecaster, say the portion of Americans [...]
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